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Re: Recombinant DNA Guidelines 
Dear Don: 
Let me make somewhat more precise my suggestion at your 
Advisory Committee meeting on February 9 to include in the NIH 
Recombinant DNA Guidelines provisions for compensation. I be- 
lieve such provisions might appropriately be added to Part IV B 
which sets forth the responsibilities of each grantee institution to 
certify to the quality of physical containment facilities. See pp. 
43-45, Jan. 1976 Proposal. 
I propose that you expand the institutional responsibility to 
include a certification that a workmen's compensation or similar 
insurance scheme is in force at the grantee institution and covers 
persons injured in the course or as a result of such experiments. 
Such compensation should be awarded without the necessity for 
proof of fault or negligence. 
You may also wish to assure yourself that such compensation 
is available at the National Institutes of Health and other Federal 
installations conducting recombinant DNA research. 
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